I also have seen this issue, but just play on and soon the ai declares war anyway, so I then go and start killing the troops that invade my space harpo
capn darwin, in my tiny map test for the bows, I did have some misses, but they were usually on the lower strength 'heros', once their strength got past 14 they usually hit, sometimes with a reduced damage, and I agree that armour seems to be broken. it looks like the damage calcs only look at health, not armour type, eg all plate armour should be bow resistant due to small openings in them(assuming a full suit of armour, but if only helmet then should be almost no diffe
tactical1981, in the options page there is a option slider for tactical combat on the right hand side of the options screen, the default position is 4 drag it to the left to 0 and you have the option for manual battle each time. harpo
decided to test the official arrow/catapult/spells fix with a game on my top win7 64bit system with one of my custom sov's(hacked the xml for super strength & mana), set up a tiny map 5 AI, went wrlike tech patterns( weapons to advanced ranged, then into magicuntil was getting the advanced magic upgrades,then stared researching the civil tree, all while capturing any towns of ai's that attack any of my towns. played to turn 264 when an <a title="1.08.37 w764 turn264 oom" hre
wyldrage, sins had a CE (collectors Edition) and the digitial download only was ALSO an electronic CE, but regarding my elemental customs decs, they were by different people, the supply came from different distribution centres, so COULD BE a faulty communication between stardock and their distribution centres OR have been caused by the email asking where my order was. harpo
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="30" id="2777744"]They're getting ready to stage a fix for this along with some other issues that cropped up.[/quote]thanks frogboy, but it wil be this evening (my time) before I can download and test. harpo
@wren, when I was testing my fix I had tried a positive number ,BUT the bow did not work AND I had a divide by zero error happen, but with the neg numbers no error, which is why I suggested the negative number. and a bit of old info, the 1.0 version of the file used TroopNumber in place of the negative. harpo
and there is a MATH error in the next line down from BOTH of theMineValue lines NOTE a MULTIPLY by ZERO ie always zero result therefor a MISS. I tried a few values in place of the ZERO and found that -0.1 give a small change of a miss and moderate chance of a suboptimal hit, and even GOOD hits I have pmed this info
there is TWO different errors in the file, the first capn darwin pointed out and could be caught by the xsd checking, but the second is a logic error being the value for the minimum in the calculation in next line, I had replaced the *0 with a *-0.1 and the overpowered bow are back (had also tried with a positive number still got a devide by zero error in elelmental, same as with the MinValue inplace of the MineValue, the /0 error happened within 100 turns, with the -0.1 inplace so far
I also have the same issue in the cartography table, but the maps load and play fine in the game, and the cartography table only lists the maps in the Program Files\Stardock Games\Elemental\data\Maps folder. I suspect that there was a typo in the patch relating to the location of the maps. harpo
the fourth OOM happened at turn 485, loading from the save at turn 416. zip file was created, added dxdiags & save games , and it was another OOM during a save where it failed to allocate 18MB also notetd that the GPU usage was usually less than 1% except when starting a tactical combat when it would hit the hi
and the third OOM of the game at turn 417 loaded from the last save at turn 361 zip file created, added dxdiags & saves also finding the archers to be very effective, but historically they WERE very effective at forcing shielded/armoured approaches to the archers positions without having huge losses of the attacking
and another oom at turn 370 loaded the last save from the previous oom, which was turn 231 zip file created added dxdiags & saves by the way it is very good to see the info about the save when you click on the save file. THANKS harpo
please delete double post by mistake harpo
was on turn 235 of a new game( custom sov, harpo's weirdie map 9 ai) ati drivers 10.9 game version 1.08b during a save zip was created, added the dxdiags & saves harpo
also the two armies should have shown on the empire tree at the left of screen. harpo
I did the same as you and I got same reply. harpo
updated the ati drivers to 10.9 played on from the save game to the next oom note zip file NOT created so created rar added the err dxdiags(updated) and the saves harpo
mistwraithe, it is a disapointment to me, but I would suggest that you open the outer cardboard box, and if it is what we both think, then email [email protected] giving them your order details and the packing slip numbers and ship from addresses so that they have the information and hopefully can track down the source of the problem. harpo
the_monk, I had ignored the fool, the name the fool used told me that it had no information for me. and I try to be a good example for sensible behavior, unlike the fool. harpo
valentineb2 & arstal, in another frogboy dev thread he stated that he is hoping for a thursday patch to 1.08 depending upon QA authorisation. harpo
the_monk, I have received an email from elisa of stardock sales instructing me to keep the package. I also agree with you that integrity is the best policy, which is WHY I made this post, pmed kyro & then emailed stardock and would have done what ever they asked me to. harpo
on my i7 930 ati 5850 6gb ddr3 2ghz win7 64bit, I started a large game with custom sov on a custom map. played to oom at approx turn 250, copied save & dxdiags to the crash zip, loaded game loaded last save played on to approx turn 460 and another oom, <a title="second oom of the day" hr
the monk, than you for the link, and upon reading it it appears to be wide open to interpretation and personal opinion. phazon88 have received a pm from kyro asking me to email [email protected] with all details, which I have just done and will post any decisions reached, and did you check the two packingslips, and were they from different ship from addresses? harpo
themonk, thank you for the info, but could you please give me a link to the post? harpo